Chapter 240 Operational Objectives

The officer touched the blue-feathered bird that had been standing on his shoulder, and the latter seemed to have no intention of leaving his shoulder.

A helipad specially provided for the take-off and landing of territory airships has been built on the lawn next to the outpost, where two Seagull-class carriers are parked.

Named by the developer of the airship, he originally wanted to name it Seabird-class, but he always felt that the name was weird, so he changed it to the better-sounding Seagull-class.

The officer walked through these man-made objects that were a few points larger than the steam spider. Even though he had seen them several times, he was still so surprised when he saw them again. Each transport ship can carry three infantry pods, hang two steam spiders, and carry a total of two platoons of sixty combat troops plus a week's worth of combat supplies to the target location.

The airport responsible for the preparation of the airport is particularly busy as it is about to launch a tentative attack on a large island.

"What is this?"

The officer looked curiously at the pile of boxes on the ground, which were filled with dark white cylinders arranged side by side.

From the smell of gunpowder in the air, he could probably tell that this was the new bullet that the general who managed them had been talking about.

"Report to the commander! We are counting the bullet supplies sent from the territory!"

The soldier saluted him and explained to him.

"These are the latest paper shell bullets sent from the territory. They have been tested and handed over to us for use."

The work of paper shell fixed loading has also entered a suspended state... or in other words, the paper shell fixed loading of this stage has been designed. After research, the dean found that if the long-barreled musket is to use the paper shell bullet structure consisting of primer, propellant, and bullet, the entire musket must be redesigned.

Redesigning the hammer-type musket into a breech-loading musket with a firing pin and developing the primer technology is not an ordinary project, so he slightly made a paper shell bullet for the transitional stage to increase the loading speed.

However, just pack the bullets and gunpowder in cardboard, and tear the bottom of the cardboard when the soldier needs to fire. First pour a little gunpowder into the gun barrel, then use the iron fiber to push the paper shell bullet with the lower end torn open into the gun barrel, pull the trigger, and ignite the propellant that has been opened at the bottom.

Fire.

The overheated temperature of the crystal ore propellant will quickly burn the paper shell, and the unburned paper shell will also be ejected from the muzzle, which will not affect the next firing. The pressure and temperature generated by this special propellant are higher than those of ordinary muskets.

Of course, if more than twenty consecutive firings are fired, it will still have a certain impact on the design performance of the firearm.

This will shorten the infantry loading process by several steps. Soldiers no longer need to consider shaking powder from the medicine bag, then taking out the projectile, and pushing it deep with iron fiber to hold it. If this one accidentally falls to the ground, immediately replace it with the next paper shell bullet.

The best paper shell thickness of this paper shell bullet has been tested by the dean of the academy, which can not only keep the packaging intact, but also use up the residual packaging shell to the greatest extent with each firing.

The soldiers' time for reloading on the battlefield was transferred to the territory's residents. The territory specially designed an ammunition workshop for the residents to configure and package this disposable paper shell fixed ammunition.

10,000 single-headed rifle bullets, 10,000 small pellet mixed shotgun shells.

The first batch of ammunition supplies from the territory.

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"All supplies for this round have been delivered. Do you have the confidence to take a foothold on the large sky island?"

Ji Lin drew an attack route on the sand table, aiming directly at one of the three largest sky islands in this fragmented world, which is closest to this small sky island.

An island that has never been developed in the adventurer's records. The kingdom they belong to, which is famous for spells and runes, focuses on the development of the other two sky islands, and only controls less than one-third of the area.

He doesn't want to compete with those people, because their attack will likely concentrate the local wildlife in the remaining two-thirds of the area. If they choose the two sky islands that are being developed, they will be under great pressure in both offense and defense...very great.

It will take time to improve the territory's industrial capacity.

This is not a multiple choice question.

The undeveloped super-large sky island is their final option... Moreover, large sky islands are most likely to have complete ruins.

This is a tentative attack. If the tentative attack is successful, he will not hesitate to invest troops to establish an outpost on the sky island.

As for why he did not choose other small sky islands, it was because his troops were too scarce. There were a total of 300 people, three companies of troops. At least one company-level unit must be stationed on one sky island to maintain stability. Then the offensive force that can be invested in the next sky island will be greatly reduced. The quality of his troops is very high... The training cycle is not short.

Physical fitness, shooting, fighting, marching, and tactical training.

The next batch of 300 troops will be drawn from the militia and trained to become regular troops when the total population of the territory reaches 10,000-otherwise the industrial capacity of the territory really cannot support such a standing army.

Bullets, firearms, constructs, supplies, and maintenance losses.

"My Lord, I promise to complete the task!"

The general in gray military uniform straightened up and shouted out his answer loudly.

Afterwards, Chang Heng and Ji Lin looked at a large sand table drawn based on a map with only a corner of the edge seized from the adventurer's airship. This map may not be correct... The islands in the sea will not move, but the sky islands will really shift with the change of time.

Compared to sea islands, sky islands can be observed from many times farther away. The larger the sky islands, the more obvious they can be observed with the naked eye from a distance. However, clouds often cover many sky islands, revealing their corners in front of people.

This is even more of a test for pilots and observers.

Some observers will regard the occasional cloud whales that jump out of the clouds as part of the island.